Author(s): Richard J. Finneran (Editor); W. B. Yeats

Poetry

First published in 1891, John Sherman and Dhoya represent some of Yeats's most important prose. Yeats's only complete attempt at realistic fiction, John Sherman is about a man torn between two women and two cities, London and Dublin. Dhoya is a mythological tale set in the remote past, depicting a liaison between a mortal and a fairy. John Sherman and Dhoya are important both as works of fiction and as indications of the fundamental continuity of subject and theme in Yeats's career. This edition offers an accurate text, introduction and explanatory notes.